Add External Site to Multisite Directory

Howdy. What if I want to add an external site (another wordpress site or even a static HTML site) to my Multisite Install's site directory? I don't want this to affect the external site in any way. Can I use Domain Mapping for this? I don't have any problems adding an mu-plugin to do the job.

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If you just want to list the external website in Network -> Sites then yes you can just create a new dummy subsite on your network. Now go to Network -> Sites -> Edit the desired site and change its current URL in Site Address (URL) field to that external website URL.

You don't need any MU-Plugin or Mapping plugin for this.

Hope that helps! Feel free to post a reply if you need further assistance :slight_smile:

The WP Rest API is still on early development stages so there are no plugins that provides this type of functionality except only this one (I have not used it yet so not sure what this plugins is capable of exactly - but bookmarking it to test shortly).

Traditionally, you can also our AutoBlog plugin to pull in posts via RSS feed of any site (even static site that has RSS feed).

However, if you are following above method than I don't think you would actually need to pull in the data from external site because this is a dummy one and user would automatically be redirecting to external site from here.

Hope that helps! Feel free to post a reply if you need further assistance :slight_smile:

Well, let me explain it further by recalling the info posted above! If you follow the method I posted above for adding an external site in Multisite list. Then you don't need to pull in latest posts from external site as requested here.

Because, using the above method with editing the URL field. Now, this site will not load any content from Multisite network. It will redirect every user whenever they will click on that site (either from backend or front-end) to that external site. So the subsite on your multisite is kind of invisible or inaccessible and replaced by external website.

Hope that helps! Feel free to post a reply if you need further assistance :slight_smile:

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